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Nazir Akbarabadi is admitted by many to be the Shakespeare of Urdu literature and indeed there is no exaggeration and hyperbole in it. Truly, a people’s poet, Nazir has been admired for many laurels to his credit. Amongst others, his humanism is distinct character of the greatness of this Mughal era luminary from Agra also…
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Masoom Muradabadi is a senior Urdu journalist and author. He is the editor of the Urdu news portal ‘Jadeed Khabar’ and the fortnightly newspaper ‘Khabardar’. He has worked in the field of Urdu journalism for the past 35 years. Apart from writing weekly columns in major newspapers of the nation, his articles too, are a…
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Jahangirabad of Shefta indicates to two entities, Jahangirabad a town in the District of Bulandshahr and Shefta, nom de plume of Mustafa Khan Shefta, a Nawab, who is an integral part of the city and the regions around it. Jahangirabad is named after the Mughal Emperor, Jahangir. He had stayed here for a couple of…
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Sultan Shamsi is one of the contemporary Urdu poets continuing the glorious tradition of poesy in the subcontinent. He has a number of poetry collections to his credit that have been published by the leading publishers of India with standard printing norms and pleasing design to the eyes. Andaz-e- Sukhan is in my hand while…
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Ramjo Narnauli, a beautiful courtesan from the historical city of Narnaul in Haryana, now is widely regarded as the muse of Shefta, a pen name for Urdu and Hasrati, name the plume for the Persian literary cannon adopted by Nawab of Jahangirabad, Mustafa Khan. Ramjo, a poet writing with takhallus Nazakat, has been described by…
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Nora, the Nurse is a poem written by the romantic and progressive poet, Asrarul Haque Majaz. Nurse is central theme in a short story ‘Kante and Kalyan, by Akhtar Orenvi, which is the result of his first hand experience in a sanatorium where he was admitted for about one and half years. A nurse fell…
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Ateeya Parveen Bilgrami is a prolific fiction writer of Urdu. In preface to her short story collection ‘Ye Mera Zarf Dekh’, she writes: “Why do I write, it is a bit difficult to explain. My heart and pen motivate me to write. A motivation stirs within me, which is the cause of my creativity.” Ateeya…
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Jahangir Nayab hailing from Kishanganj in Simanchal region of Bihar is a prominent contemporary poet, whose poetry collection “Hawa Ke Khilaf” ‘Facing Breezes’ has recently been published. Under “My Words” in the book, he starts speaking of himself with a couplet: The environment here is not cogent to me. It is only my ambition…
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(Dr) Maulana Mohammad Farman Nadvi is a professor of language and literature at the University of Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow. Hailing from the neighboring country Nepal, he is an alumnus of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulema. An expert in the language of Islam and Quran – Arabic and the language of Islamic history and heritage in…
